Transmissions
Hooked on Hope Recast: Episode 1 - Clint Best vs the Cosmos
Paul Nataraj & James Gilbraith (UK, 2020)
Paul Nataraj + James Gilbraith (UK, 2020)
28 min
This episode is part of an ongoing collaboration between angling writer James Gilbraith and sound artist Paul Nataraj. In this, which was the first piece produced between the pair, is a story of competitive sports fishing at its most psychedelic. James takes on the 'National Association of Local Government Officers', the farmer's mad dog Ming, his long standing rival and best friend Mick Crook, and an epic comedown on a baking hot summer's day in Blackburn circa 1990. Who'll come out on top, Clint Best or the Cosmos?
Produced by Paul Nataraj
Words and narration by James Gilbraith.
Spiegel im Spiegel
Christian Hales (US,2025)
Christian Hales (US, 2025)
10 min
On the YouTube comments for Arvo Pärts piece, Spiegel im Spiegel, instead of normal anonymous hate and internet trolls, there's a deeply touching window into humanity. People were sharing some really raw stuff about how the music made them feel, how they played it for their mom while they rubbed her back as she was passing, how their young child said it reminded them of their dad who had passed, how they feel hope in humanity when they hear it. Each is so real and raw it reads like a Mary Oliver poem. How is one piece of music doing so much for so many people? In this segment, I interview one man about how he played the music for his 2 week old daughter in the ICU, what the music means to him, and how he feels now that she's 7 years old.
Produced by Christian Hales
Music credits: Kookaburra by Rewind, Spiegel im Spiegel by Arvo Pärt and performed by Benjamin Hudson and Jürgen Kruse
LoveLanguageLoss
Linda Rae Dornan (CA, 2009-2025)
Linda Rae Dornan (CA, 2009-2025)
5 min
his is an audio art piece about dementia and caregiving recorded over many years as Linda cared for her partner, John Asimakos. The journal she kept was too emotionally difficult to read so she eventually transcribed it backwards to alleviate her own response. Transcription uses this reversed journal, cutup techniques and constant repetition collaged with John’s own voice as he tried to communicate. Constant repetition references the incomprehension and deterioration of language evident within the gradual decline of dementia patients. The audio piece attempts to share an interior space of intensity and tenderness within the isolated world of dementia.
Produced by Linda Rae Dornan
Festival Selects: Star Map
Nanna Hauge Kristensen (DK, 2024)
Nanna Hauge Kristensen (DK 2024)
6 min
A personal piece about human navigation, star maps and star sounds.
Produced by Nanna Hauge Kristensen
Produced for Falling Tree. Featured on Short Cuts, “Constellations”, BBC4. With Ferdinand Hauge Leth.
Music by Kirstine Lindemann, captured by Trawl Hz.
Festival Selects: Bower
Phil Smith (UK, 2022)
Phil Smith (UK 2022)
6 min
A radio song of summer's ending
Produced by Phil Smith for Short Cuts (BBC Radio 4) exec: Eleanor MacDowall).
Festival Selects: Everything And The Kitchen Sink
Martin Austwick (CA 2025)
Martin Austwick (CA, 2025)
Festival Selects: Our Bodies
Martina Pouchlá (CZ, 2025)
Martina Pouchlá (CZ 2025)
6 min
A photograph of a nude woman raises the question: Are our bodies truly our own?
Produced by Martina Pouchlá.
Music: "Ana" provided by mobygratis.
Produced for Small Audio Art.
Festival Selects: Siren Song
Kalli Anderson (US 2024)
Kalli Anderson (US, 2024)
7 min
A Ukrainian singer harmonizes with air raid sirens and reflects on the role of artists during wartime.
Produced by Kalli Anderson featuring music by melancholydi
Communication Across The Field
Lindsay Bodanza (US, 2026)
Lindsay Bodanza (US, 2026)
26 min
Communication Across the Field asks how we understand an experience that feels like communication when no source can be identified. Beginning with a personal encounter involving four identical, overwhelming notes heard in the middle of the night, the piece draws on philosophy, psychology, and art to explore experiences that seem to arrive beyond familiar channels of perception.
Through Rudolf Otto’s concept of the numinous and reflections on attention and receptivity, it considers how we might honor the force of such encounters while remaining uncertain about their source or meaning.
The piece is Episode Seven of The Space Between: Beneath the Surface of Everything, an independently produced, eight-part cinematic audio essay series exploring consciousness, identity, perception, and the limits of human understanding.
Created by Lindsay Bodanza
Music and Sound Design by Joel Cox
Festival Selects: Gigi Riva and I
Cristina Marras (IT 2025)
M. Cristina Marras (IT 2025)
12 min
A story about childhood, wonder, memories and (a bit) about mischievous revenge. Well, the story is about the soccer player Gigi Riva who became an actual god in the mind of all Sardinians, my fellow people, when he "led the very modest soccer team of Cagliari to win the Serie A championship in the 1969-70 season." All I can tell you is to advise you that this is not a story about sport, but I’d rather not spoil the plot as I am certain it will surprise and enchant, if you have 12 minute to spare.
Produced by M. Cristina Marras